The hated Tasmanian blue gum tree - better known as a variety of eucalyptus - has been blamed for virtually every evil short of snatching babies out of strollers, but its species can never be removed ...

‘After the 1849 Gold Rush, transpacific shipping was booming. Seeds of the Australian Blue Gum Eucalyptus from Southern Victoria and Tasmania were imported in San Francisco in 1853; by 1860 the young ...

SANTA CRUZ — To Robert Sward, the blue gum eucalyptus trees standing by his back fence resemble a leafy gang of thugs, menacing and ready to strike. Sward and his wife, Gloria Alford, hate them. They ...

On a Saturday morning in early September, the Sweet Springs Nature Preserve in Los Osos, Calif., bustles with activity. To the east, a dozen or so volunteers struggle to stem the tide of veldt grass ...

View the full episode transcript. This article was first published in February 1, 2018, and was updated on April 11, 2024. Depending on whom you ask, eucalyptus trees are either an icon in California ...

DEAR JOAN: Here is the goofiest hypothetical question you’re likely to get this year. If one placed a koala in a giant blue gum eucalyptus tree, specifically the big one on Schallenberger Road, by the ...

I retired from the Oakland Fire Department in 1988. In 1989 I began working for the Department of Defense as chief of fire prevention at the Oakland Army Base. In 1991 I was appointed to the ...

MAKAWAO, MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hundreds of eucalyptus trees in Makawao are dead or dying, and the community says they're posing a safety threat. The county is now removing some of them along Piiholo ...